{"id":33554,"date":"2021-04-01T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33554"},"modified":"2021-04-01T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T01:45:57","slug":"biden-administration-unveils-network-of-community-leaders-to-urge-covid-19-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33554","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration unveils network of community leaders to urge COVID-19 vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u2019s administration launched a network of community leaders tasked with boosting COVID-19 vaccine confidence in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>More than 275 founding members have formed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rvlwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcckkgrt_zlrrsspmpkrlrwprlbld.html?a=&amp;b=38047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rvlwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcckkgrt_zlrrsspmpkrlrwprlbld.html?a%3D%26b%3D38047&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617402915433000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGX8I7yVsIkLiKSWK_55dyWKBw_lw\">COVID-19 Community Corps<\/a>\u00a0that the administration plans to activate as part of its public education campaign on the virus, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is about reminding our fellow person of their power and that we see them, that they matter, and that we\u2019re going to help each other out,\u201d Vice President Harris said on Thursday in a virtual meeting with the founding members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s participating:\u00a0<\/strong>The members range from sports leagues like MLB, NFL and NASCAR to organizations like the NAACP and GLAAD. The network also includes rural, union, Hispanic, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Native and tribal, veteran, business and faith leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What will members do:\u00a0<\/strong>Officials plan to provide \u201cconsistent and accurate information\u201d on COVID-19 and the vaccine to these \u201dtrusted messengers\u201d for them to share with their family, friends and community and to promote vaccinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u2019s administration launched a network&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33555,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554\/revisions\/33555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}